Be warned: It's a highly technical process that involves "clicking".
I once knew a guy who mastered perfectly the process of clicking, but then I saw him doing a doubleclick. Yep, you heard it right: two consecutive clicks performed quickly one after the other. Before that I didn't know that there are people that can actually do it. Simply put, my mind was blown. It's a very cool trick, you have to see it in real life to fully appreciate it.
There is a Windows update bug that will cause svchost to eat 1gb of ram everytime it does a Windows update check.
There's also another memory eating scenario. Try installing Windows 7 afresh and then try to install all updates from Windows Update. While the installation proceeds, TrustedInstaller.exe starts grabbing gobs of RAM, and the amount keeps creeping up after each update is installed. It can reach 10 gigabytes.:D
There's many other problems in Windows Update as well. It has always been kind of a hack.
Take a weak kneed intel Atom board, and do some simple office use tests with it with various older versions of windows. Start with NT4, then use Win2k, the XP, then 7, then 8.1. See how the ability to do simple things degrades as the OS expects more and more hardware just to draw the damned UI.
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown, and you might even notice that the computer would get slightly more snappy after each upgrade.
Windows 7 at release is fast on a core 2 duo. Today it needs a quad i7 at 3.6ghz or faster and a SSD drive to be as fast as the initial release.
Trash talk. It's likely that the Core 2 Duo machine just had a slow 5400 rpm hard drive. Windows 7 will work smoothly even on an Intel Atom with all updates installed.
90 minutes is what I get from a crusty used laptop acquired from eBay. But we have moved into a world where 5 hour battery lives are not unreasonable to expect from new machines.
When people applaud Apple, design is often one of the things they applaud. How about non-removable batteries as bad design?
Also glossy displays, hard-to-repair assemblies, dust accumulation. Apple should be the "you pay to get a product in which everything is perfect" brand, but there are still glaring deficiencies from an engineering standpoint.
It's odd how companies like Microsoft get criticized a lot about their malice and monopoly position, but Cisco gets a free pass even when they are the dominant player in enterprise networking gear. Why is this? I'm sure that even this message goes through mountains of Cisco hardware when I send it.
It remains true that we cannot have well informed discussion about the paper if we can't get everyone to easily access it for free. Are we really going to arrange it so that everyone goes to the library to acquire their copy? Too complicated.
Yeah, I also noticed that 945GM drivers from Windows Update do not seem to have OpenGL support.:) Although it would still be just OpenGL 1.4 with some extensions.
I can think of two solutions on how to solve this problem.
1) Pin the installed OEM drivers, so that Windows understands that no other drivers should be installed for these device IDs.
or
2) In the PCI device ID, add extra information that this device is a special Samsung variant, and then Windows knows that the generic driver for that device is not compatible.
I'm not sure if these solutions are possible, if someone knows more then please let me know.
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Be warned: It's a highly technical process that involves "clicking".
I once knew a guy who mastered perfectly the process of clicking, but then I saw him doing a doubleclick. Yep, you heard it right: two consecutive clicks performed quickly one after the other. Before that I didn't know that there are people that can actually do it. Simply put, my mind was blown. It's a very cool trick, you have to see it in real life to fully appreciate it.
That's not related to Windows Update. I actually found that holophrastic's comment to be excellent.
Yes. I don't see how that counters with my argument.
Please explain.
There is a Windows update bug that will cause svchost to eat 1gb of ram everytime it does a Windows update check.
There's also another memory eating scenario. Try installing Windows 7 afresh and then try to install all updates from Windows Update. While the installation proceeds, TrustedInstaller.exe starts grabbing gobs of RAM, and the amount keeps creeping up after each update is installed. It can reach 10 gigabytes. :D
There's many other problems in Windows Update as well. It has always been kind of a hack.
What do you mean? Any application can store its settings in the registry. It's always been like that.
Fun little thing to do:
Take a weak kneed intel Atom board, and do some simple office use tests with it with various older versions of windows. Start with NT4, then use Win2k, the XP, then 7, then 8.1. See how the ability to do simple things degrades as the OS expects more and more hardware just to draw the damned UI.
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown, and you might even notice that the computer would get slightly more snappy after each upgrade.
Yep, that's true of course.
Windows 7 at release is fast on a core 2 duo. Today it needs a quad i7 at 3.6ghz or faster and a SSD drive to be as fast as the initial release.
Trash talk. It's likely that the Core 2 Duo machine just had a slow 5400 rpm hard drive. Windows 7 will work smoothly even on an Intel Atom with all updates installed.
90 minutes is what I get from a crusty used laptop acquired from eBay. But we have moved into a world where 5 hour battery lives are not unreasonable to expect from new machines.
When people applaud Apple, design is often one of the things they applaud. How about non-removable batteries as bad design?
Also glossy displays, hard-to-repair assemblies, dust accumulation. Apple should be the "you pay to get a product in which everything is perfect" brand, but there are still glaring deficiencies from an engineering standpoint.
Hehheh...it looks similar to the jetpack in the Simpsons episode Sky Police (S26E16).
It's odd how companies like Microsoft get criticized a lot about their malice and monopoly position, but Cisco gets a free pass even when they are the dominant player in enterprise networking gear. Why is this? I'm sure that even this message goes through mountains of Cisco hardware when I send it.
Oh, right. I forgot Linux users, who cannot reliably know if their double-click actually performs the desired function or not.
How about a huge array of LEDs for all IRQ lines?
Just get a 1920x1080 screen and put Twitter rolling on the side.
It's impossible to know if it's doing anything at times and it's frustrating as hell.
You mean a HDD light? Then why not an USB light, CPU light or RAM light?
Relative to C# or Java, for example.
Raw pointers and arrays can be avoided when writing C++. Smart pointers and vector are the alternatives.
Especially now that Steam is on Linux, are there any big cool games that you play or at least have tried?
It remains true that we cannot have well informed discussion about the paper if we can't get everyone to easily access it for free. Are we really going to arrange it so that everyone goes to the library to acquire their copy? Too complicated.
I have noticed this as well. The culture of releasing proper, polished products seems to be still alive in Japan.
Yes, that was what I meant.
This is not malicious. It is stupid and ignorant, but not malicious.
This is like selling a house without fuses in the electric circuits. Everything works, but is dangerous to use.
Yeah, I also noticed that 945GM drivers from Windows Update do not seem to have OpenGL support. :) Although it would still be just OpenGL 1.4 with some extensions.
I can think of two solutions on how to solve this problem.
1) Pin the installed OEM drivers, so that Windows understands that no other drivers should be installed for these device IDs.
or
2) In the PCI device ID, add extra information that this device is a special Samsung variant, and then Windows knows that the generic driver for that device is not compatible.
I'm not sure if these solutions are possible, if someone knows more then please let me know.